Dori Launches Community Telenovela Website

TEL AVIV, November 18:
Dori Media Group has launched the world's first commercial community website
dedicated to telenovelas, Novebox.com, which features a new multiplatform
series that Dori produced specifically for the site, Amanda O.

Novebox.com is available
in Spanish and English. It includes content from a number of telenovela
producers as well as a broad range of exclusive content. In addition to airing Amanda O and other novelas produced for
the web, the site will provide daily news that covers events within the genre
with correspondents based in Central and South America and the U.S. The site
also features social-networking applications and a telenovela encyclopedia that
includes information on shows, actors, producers, writers and theme songs from
around the world.

Amanda O is
the first novela available for the Internet, TV and mobile. The online version
will consist of 130 nine-minute episodes, while the TV version includes 26
45-minute episodes. Hundreds of video clips will be available for cell-phone
users. During the first stage of its release, Amanda O will be available in Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay, with
other countries to follow.

Nadav
Palti, the CEO and President of Dori Media Group, commented: "We
recognized a need among telenovela fans, for a global site where they can find
everything they need on every title in the genre. Putting such a platform
together has been a challenge but we have carried through our promise to launch
it and are delighted with the result. We are very grateful for the cooperation
and assistance we have received from all the major telenovela production and
distribution companies, whose valuable contribution has helped us bring this ambitious
project to life. We have also expanded our original vision so that registered
users are able to create their own content such as blogs and pages dedicated to
their favorite shows and actors."

He continued: "Amanda O, which will initially only be
launched on www.novebox.com, is a very innovative concept. The show stars two
of the most popular telenovela actors, Natalia Oreiro and Luciano Castro, and
we believe the show has all of the ingredients to become a big hit."

—By Kristin
Brzoznowski